I'm not really thrilled with how Enlightened Palms [1] turned out; I think Deserted Shopping Center in West Boca at 2:30 am [2] turned out much better. Enlightened Palms is too washed out and grainy whereas Shopping Center is crisper.
I set the digital camera for night shots, indoor (artificial) lighting, no flash and an effective film rating of ASA (American Standards Association) 400, which as films go, means it's a fast film. It's the speed of film I used in college (Florida Atlantic University) [3] and I've had good results in using it at night, so I decided to use that setting here. Only the digital camera gives rather poor results with ASA 400 at night; very grainy and black areas tend to be a very blotchy bluish-black (which is more noticable on the original 1984×1488 images).
For Shopping Center (which was taken when I headed back to the car) I decided to see what the results would look like if, keeping the other settings the same (night shot, indoor lighting, no flash) and set the ASA to 100. The results I think look much better, so I'm thinking of doing another attempt at Enlightened Palms in the near future [4].
[1] /boston/2002/12/08/enlightened.palms.jpg
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![[2] /boston/2002/12/08/lot.100.jpg](/gemini.conman.org/boston/2002/12/08/lot.100.jpg){kind=link}